Newsmakers
07/05/2009
A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.
Movie Information
Andrey Merzlikin
as Smirnov
Evgeny Tsyganov
as Herman
Masha Mashkova
as Katya
Sergey Garmash
as Killer
Maksim Konovalov
as Kley
Aleksey Frandetti
as Orda
Pavel Klimov
as Kolyan
Sergey Vesnin
as Kon
Artyom Semakin
as Valery
Viktor Chepelov
as Sanya
David Stepanyan
as Hamlet
Oleg Chernigov
as Mikhalych
Pyotr Rytov
as Polyakov
Yuriy Shlykov
as Boldyrev
Pavel Sukhov
as Boldyrev's assistant
Yuliya Kronrod
as girl with a scooter
Anton Fedorov
as
Vasily Maslennikov
as TV correspondent (voice)
